Produced by Keith Edkins and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. * * * * * _The Curtezan unmasked_: Or, THE WHOREDOMES OF JEZEBEL Painted to the Life. With ANTIDOTES against them; or Heavenly JULIPS to cool Men in the Fever of _LUST_. * * * * * Prescribed by a Spiritual Physician. * * * * * ----_Sanctum nihil est & ab inguine Tutum,_ _Non Matrona Laris, non Filia Virgo, neqq; ipse_ _Sponsus lævis adhuc, non Filius ante pudicus._ Juvenal. Satyr. 3. * * * * * _London_, Printed for _Henry Marsh_, at the Princes Arms in Chancery-Lane. 1664. {1} * * * * * PROV. 5. vers. 3, 4. _The lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb, and her mouth is smoother then oyl: But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword._ * * * * * The Text here presents you with a _strange woman_; with whom though I desire not to procure you a _familiar acquaintance_, yet I'le give you such cognizance of her, and excite that abhorrency of her baseness in all your minds, that if any have heretofore been sick for want of her company, he shall now be as sick of it; after I have made it appear that this [1]beautiful Siren, having a Womans face, ends in the Serpents tail; and discovered, not onely the _Virgins-face_ of this unsatiable _Harpye_, but her cruel talons also shrowded under her wings. That you may therefore (as[2] _Amnon_ {2} did upon _Tamar_) bolt the door upon this _strange woman_, and no longer endure the _whoredoms_ of this painted _Jezebel_; I'le endeavour to characterize her to you, and by the infallible clue of Truth conduct you through all her intricate and winding Labyrinths. Be pleased therefore, for the explication of the word [_Strange_] to take notice, that this Epithite was by the _Græcians_ attributed to their common Prostitutes, which they called [Greek: xenas], _strangers_: And hence, I conceive, it was that the Comoedian called [3]_Glycerium_ who was thought to live by the unlawful submission of her body, _Peregrinam_, a stranger, a strange woman. But I have onely hitherto told you her name; I shall now therefore proceed further to describe her to you by her sordid actions, which will ascertain you of those miseries which are her constant waiting-women or attendants. That I may therefore speedily prosecute my design, She is one whom not _Argus_'s hundred eyes, nor _brazen_ walls, nor the most vigilant Guards can secure from her lascivious incontinency: the bars and [4]hedges which Nature has made for her {3} tongues confinement